A movie that wasn’t supposed to be. It was originally shot as a pilot series, and only at the final stage it was decided to make a film. And it shows. There is no material for the film, the duration of a little more than an hour, and the first 20 minutes are talking about the obvious and drinking tea. In addition, there are tedious dialogues in which the same thing is repeated several times: “Oh, ugliness, who did I hit?” - It's a bear. - Oh, bear. - What bear? - Such a bear, a six-year-old bear. - Oh, I hit a bear. - Yeah. And then again, "Why did you take us on foot?" “Because what you wanted to see, I took you to see.” Awesome dialogue in general. They're like this all the time.
The film lost everything for which the viewer loved the past parts:
- Finn Raivo's not here. Although it was his misunderstanding of what was happening that was the main method of presenting the plot and humor in the original. It was Raivo who created the main dynamics with Kuzmich. It was he who perceived everything that happened as something mysteriously knocked out of reality.
- Almost no drinking. Yes, drunkenness is evil, but that’s been the case in past movies, most of the jokes revolved around vodka and the human mistakes it made. There are ridiculous situations here too, but there is no explanation for this. The inspector falls into the den and is silent because... why? Soloveichik flies away in balloons because he hoarsed, forgot the ammunition, and then the dog ran to play. Another one misses the fish because... it's just very strong. These are absolutely fabulous fake scenes. That's bad.
- Kuzmich in this film is a completely different character. In the first two films, he was a blissful man who in the morning did not remember driving a car; who spoke to a foreigner without knowing his language; who tried to smuggle a cow in a bomb hatch, and crossed the Finnish border in a Piranha submarine to recover lost vodka. Here he is a perfectly normal gamekeeper with no eyes. He does his job perfectly, gives good advice, does not do strange things, nothing happens to him. Because of this, the very concept of the franchise was simply destroyed.
- I haven’t seen a funny joke in the whole movie.
In addition, I absolutely did not like that the authors could not and did not even try to show boars, but used an inappropriate special effect with pyrotechnics. So through the snow, raising blast waves, could be worn mechanical "screamers", and not boar. And adding as many as four inspectors, three of whom are simply not needed, is a very strange decision.
In principle, it would be possible to put a unit, but at the end of the scene with balloons and a helicopter showed that the team of authors still remembered something about the past parts and their spirit. So you can score a couple of points.